The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-04-30
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Some Speculations About President
Cleveland-Does he Want Renomi-
nation or Not What Mrs. Cleve-
land May Say, &c.

WAsH1NGroN, D. c., April Goth, 1887.
Editors Union To be or motto be, was the ques-
ton Hamlet propounded to himself. "To run or
not to run" for the next Presidency must be the
question that is propounding itself to President
Cleveland, if all the talk we hear in the newspa-
pers on the subject just now is to be taken for
granted All that all of them is saying about Mr.
Cleveland intending to be or not intending to be
q candidate for denomination to the high office
which he occupies, or that he will or will not
accept such a nomination cannot be true, for they
very pointedy contradict one another and almost
sometimes themselves. One day paper publishes
a report that the editor of certain other paper
has received letter from the President in which
he says under no circumstances will he ever be q
candidate again for the Office he holds but scarcely
has the ink of that paper got dry before the afore
said editor telegraphs that he has not received
such letter, and then he comes out q day or two
afterwards in his own newspaper and tells what
the President did say to him in conversation
sometime back. But that is enough. When the
ball has once got to rolling, every newspaper in
the country takes up the subject, gives its own
views as to whether the president has said he
would decline denomination or not and adds
something it has heard some person, or some Sem
ator, or some "prominent Democrat" say on the
subject until it has become as broad as q river.
1t probably may be of great interest to the
Democratic party just now to know positively
whether Mr.. Cleveland would actually decline
denomination for the Presidency or not, that party
now looking around for its next available candi-
date just as the Republican party has begun to
consider, or its leaders are considering probably,
who shall be its next standard bearer. And as it
casts its eye around and sees one else through
out the field who, it is propabe, could defeat its
antagonist, it naturally reverts to the one in the
White House, who has once led it to victory. The
truth is as seem to discern it, that the seeing
Democrats do not think that it is going to be an
easy matter to defeat the Republicans in the next
campaign, and therefore to win the fight they
must have their strongest mana veritable Hector.
And who is a Hector in the Democratic party to-
day? Who, save Cleveland, with his following
drawn from the Republican party in the last Pres
idential campaign, could have won the victory ?
and who now can secure that same support except
he, even if he can, which every thinking man
must know is essential to success? The leaders OF
the Democratic party, the keen-sighted ones and
those who will be honest with themselves to see
it, know that the Republicans are the dominant
element in this country to-day, as they have been
for twenty-five years, and if they are beaten in
Presidential campaign, it can only be by the most
suspicious circumstances in favor OF the Demo-
cracy, by having their strongest man IN the held
and by the most extraordinary Efforts rms Is
the situation now. The Democratic party is not
stronger than it was in 1884, and all known what
a hercuean effort it had to make to win the cleo
ton. notwithstanding it was aided by several dis
contented elements that drew out from the Repub-
lican party, and the margin by which it won then
was of the slmmest kind. 1t is nc wonder then,
that the slightest whisper with regard to whether
this champion, who once did valiant battle for the
Democracy, would or would not again take up the
gage of battle if it be laid upon him, for the sake
of his party or decline the fight, should gain i'm
mediate attention and spring Immediately up to
almost universal interest.
have no opinion to express as to whether
Mr. Cleveland would or would not again accept
the nomination of his party for the Presidency:
He certainly did once declare publicly as opposed
to the second-term principle, but circumstances
NAV change ones mind and opinions. Mr..
Cleveland has now been in the White House
and is nearing the third quarter of his term
tt has been we'll known always that when a
man has enjoyed one term OF the Presidency,
whatever the vexations and cares OF the once
NAV be,sthe has always been DESTROYS for a
second term and also, in Mr.. Cleveands case,
there is little circumstance other than THIS that
might contribute to change his mind from what it
was when he first entered the White House and
gave utterance to the sentiment that person
Should never be elected to the Presidency but for
one term, Mr.. Cleveland's circumstances have
changed since he became President. Then he
was q bachelor; now he is married, and who
knows how far this might go towards making him
not only willing but anxious to serve another term!
Who knows but that Mrs. Cleveland is DESTROYS OF
remaining the mistress of the White House an
other four years And woman's will sometimes
sways mems minds, and this might change Mr..
Cleveland's to accepting denomination.
If, as it is possible, or would be possible with
one less stubborn to carry out his principles or
opinions when once formed than Mr.. Cleveland is
said to be, he has really changed his sentiments
since he came into the White House and is now
willing to serve another four years as President
after his present term has expired, and desired
to feel the pulse of his party as to whether he
could get the denomination or not, the matter
~ hear very adeptiy managed as "feeler.' -
The Democracy believes that Mr.. Cleveland as a
con
shown by the interest taken and the expressions
give utterance to as to whether he wonld accept
the nomination or not-and Mr.. Cleveland sees
it but still so far as any utterance on the subject
has come from him, the Democracy is left in the
dark as to whether he "wants them" or, in other
words, will or will not be their candidate
There is no news of interest here. The unfor-
tunate tragic death of Lieut.. Danenhower, at An
napolis last week, created quite sadness in this
city among his many friends. Your oorrespon-
dent is quite intimately acquainted with his fam
lily and could not but heartily sympathize with
them in their bereavement. ANON.